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Schedule January 5: D’Anna – Percy January 12: Janet – Howard January 19: El Gaucho – Rushdie January 26: Rob G – Helprin February 2: Robert Gotcher – de Lubac February 8: godescalc – Sheckley February 15: Mac – P.G. Wodehouse February 22: Grumpy – Hans Urs von Balthasar March 1: Rob G – Ronald
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Derek Trucks As I mentioned last week, Derek Trucks is the nephew of Butch Trucks, one of the three original members of the Allman Brothers Band who are still with the group today. And starting in 1999 and continuing until just recently Derek was in it, too. He was a child–well, ok, a teenaged–prodigy, as
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As I have written more than once here, one of the two or three most troublesome questions of faith for me is the apparent contradiction between the biblical narrative of paradise and fall, and that put forward by science: millions of years of nature red in tooth and claw, and primitive mankind slowly rising out
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I've been meaning to recommend this: the BBC series about the early career of the detective we know and love as Inspector Morse from the series starring John Thaw in the late '80s and through the '90s. This is the second season, and there's only one episode left, so it's almost not worthwhile for me
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Duane Allman In my none-too-humble opinion, the Allman Brothers when Duane was still alive were the greatest blues-rock band there's ever been. (For those who don't know the story: Duane was killed in a motorcycle accident in 1971, at the age of 24. You can read the band's entire long story at AllMusic.com.) Without him
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(It seems a little crass to publish this somewhat frivolous post when someone I know, if only through his writings and through mutual acquaintance, is close to death. But that's the way of it, as both Frost ("Out, out–") and Auden ("Musee des Beaux Arts") have noted in their well-known poems: the rest of us
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Grumpy informs us in a comment that Stratford has just received last rites. Please pray for his soul and for the comfort of his family. Grumpy has included this prayer to St. Joseph as patron of departing souls: Oh, St. Joseph, whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the throne of God.
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Fireworks from my rich neighbor's pier; pretty blurry but still sort of nice.
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Danny Gatton An obvious follow-up to Roy Buchanan: another Telecaster master with mind-boggling technique, not very well-known outside the circles of those who are specifically interested in electric guitar. Like Buchanan, he was even called "the world's greatest unknown guitarist." He was also nicknamed "The Humbler" in reference to the way other players felt about
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Yesterday on the way to work I merged onto Interstate 10 at the same time that a long line of bikers was passing through the interchange heading west, as I was. There were forty or fifty of them, I guess, all but a few of them single-file, so the line stretched out for more than
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